Fed Flub Sparks New Data Concerns

Some of the biggest banks and investment firms on Wall Street were among those that received minutes of the Federal Reserve's latest policy meeting 19 hours before the market-sensitive document was released.

The Fed said Wednesday that a staff member in its congressional liaison office accidentally released minutes of a March 19-20 policy meeting Tuesday afternoon to many of his contacts, including Washington representatives at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Barclays Capital, Wells Fargo & Co., Citigroup Inc. and UBS AG....